OK, so I've built CVS HEAD a few dozen times, and I have about every dependency possible satisfied, but I'd rather not have unneeded requirements.

http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.2.php shows that X, Qt, Perl, bzip2, zlib, PCRE and libpng are required. I'm not sure about Perl, but I'm confident that at least libpng and PCRE are not required. Useful, but no more required than OpenSSL, libjpeg, and probably less critical than libxml2 and libxslt.

On my Laptop, the SuSE packages came up with no sound. Turned out that the volume levels were off... as in turned off. When I set everything to middle, Coven's One Tin Soldier blasted me. A little tweaking later, and it's good.

I can boot into runlevel 3 and then mpg123 works. But after starting KDE it doesn't, even after shutting down KDE.

While KDE is running all apps which are using sound freeze, even non KDE apps. I can restart ALSA while KDE is running then the apps don't freeze anymore but still no sound. I have tries all sound server and volume settings but nothing.

I can confirm this, SUSE 9.0 and KDE 3.2 binary packages just killed my sound system (VIA onboard sound). I can't play anything. Several users reported this already. Sounds used to be fine under beta2.

Hi. Anonymous. For months I've been trying to get Ksim running on anything later than FC1. I resorted to installing the tar.gz for Ksim on FC2 which worked ok, then when Debian was working I tried the tar.gz on that too. Few problems here caused by qt_dir, but eventually it installed , but with only a desktop icon. Had to click on the icon each time the system was started. Now got Gentoo installed with KDE 3.4, and still no Ksim. Now I'm getting a bit T'd off. Rooting around on the KDE site I find your post. Man, I can't thank you enough. I had Gentoo booted up on the other machine at the time. Right click panel, add, panel, Ksim, and it was there like magic. It messed the icons on the desktop about a bit, but thats no problem. I mean. Why can't KDE notify you when they are changing stuff. Perhaps the first time you run Konqueror, a "please read this" notice for changes, etc. The same problem exists for Kmidi having been dumped from versions later than FC1 with 2.4 kernel. Thanks again for the fix. Nigel.

It seems it somehow interferes with the sybase open client library (I have version 11.9.2 installed).
I configure kdelibs with options --enable-final --disable-debug --with-alsa --enable-fast-malloc=full
arts configured with --enable-final --disable-debug
Qt 3.2.3 (recommended version) is configured with

Your 2.3.x glibc lacks a compatibility patch. Either bug your distro to fix
your glibc to include old-rotten-compat symbols :) or if you just want to build kde build the sybase support in qt as plugin, which will allow you to build&run kde. You won't be able to use the sybase support, because your sybase lib uses a private glibc symbol.

I'm suspecting something like that is happening, however, I don't think you're right, because I built kde 3.2 RC1 a few weeks ago using qt 3.2.1, and everything compiled/linked just fine.
I'm using RH 9.0 as a basis, glibc is 2.3.2-11.9 (the latest one available from RH web site). I didn't have problems compiling kde 3.2 beta 1 and 2 as well.
So, changes from the last succesfull compile:
qt went from 3.2.1 to 3.2.3;
qt compiled with mysql support;
kde went from 3.2 RC1 to 3.2.0

Would someone with better knowledge of kde 3.2/qt inners help me to isolate what's happening, and if possible, fix it?

When i'm going to upgrade my KDE, i'll build it from source; I would like to know every time which QT to use. This time it seems it's QT 3.2, but in one thread here Waldo Bastian mentions the qt-copy has important fixes.
So, qt-copy? in a branch? i guess qt-copy head is for KDE-head? and how will it be for 3.2.1?
Would konstruct take care of this for me?

For KDE 3.2 is the recommended Qt version 3.2.3. qt-copy/HEAD contains Qt 3.3 Beta 1 (final later today?). qt-copy/QT_3_2_BRANCH contains basically Qt 3.2.3. The important fixes are in the patches/ directory and should be applied with apply_patches. Konstruct contains these patches and applies them to the Qt 3.2.3 tarball. Any question left? :-)

Is there any way to turn off (or at least tone down) the new menu seperators in the K menu? (i.e. "Most Used Applications", "All Applications", etc).

They look quite nice, but I think they draw the eye away from the actual menu items (Especially under the 'Plastik' theme. It might not sound like much, but it's an added annoyance to have to stop and focus when I'm whipping around the menu.

is there anything I can do to make the spaces between konqi toolbar icons equal, and change text like "Home URL" to "Home"? check the screenshot. I have tried reconfiguring toolbar with no luck. the icons only option is out for me.

Nice to see that the order in konqueror drag&drop popup menu
have changed so that "Move" now is the first menu choise instead
of the more seldom used "Copy".

This was one of the problems I found in a recent usability study of
KDE. However according to the study it would be even better to remove the menu alltogheter as it did not work well for unexperienced users. Some of them didn't even notice the menu, as they moved on to the next task in the firm belief that they actually had performed an operation when the file was dropped (This was totally unexpected). The main problem was that they thougth turned up annonyingly often as they had no idea how to use modifier keys to select multiple files.

Experienced users had no problems though. To our surprise experienced usrs liked it, as they thought it would be a good help for those less experienced than themselves.

The study is in Swedish but I will try to get a shareable Enlish version
out as soon as possible.

That does it. I wish I'da known that before. This should be in the FAQ. I've been seeing the question around a little bit. All of the answers on the net say 'upgrade flex', but NONE say 'get rid of pofiles.cc' !

On a SuSE 9.0 with defalt KDE 3.1.4, when upgrading to kde 3.2, how can I resolve the conflict with kdebase3-SuSE? Just a rpm -i --nodeps?

Other : Alsa seems to not work properly. It get really noisy and unusable. I goggled the web but nothing found. Anyone knows the trouble?

Last (sorry). Perhaps it is not a KDE problem. I installed SuSE 9.0 and it works really fine but, after some days of work, it really slows down. KDE startup takes up to 5 minuts to finnish and apps startup time gets horrible too. I removed the user and created a new one and I resolved the problem for a few days, but it slowed down again. I reinstalled everything (clean install, reformatted partitions) and resolved the problem for a few days only again. Can it be a problem of reiserfs? I havent' tried with ext2 file system.

You may want to run kmix and turn off things like "Analog audio in" and other cryptic things which you hardly use. This worked for me -- at least, I got rid of all scratches and awful sound quality on my SuSE 9.0 box at home.

The problem still remains. StepMania, VBA, xmms+arts output plugin -- they don't work with the new aRts at all, even after they've been recompiled. mplayer works just fine, btw. I've noticed a number of other bugs, at least ten of them, but since now I've had read the disclaimer, it sounds better to wait for the official builds.

I'm thinking to roll back to kde-3.1.5 that was working great at home for the time being, and I didn't even bother to upgrade to 3.2 at work.

Sadly, I think I'll back to KDE 3.1.4, because another grave bug had appeared. When I close my session, even logout, even tunoff or restart KDE hangs my computer so when I turn on my linux again I always have to go to mantenince mode to run fsck manually. I don't know why, but does my box unsusefull :(.

(This was sent to Rossend by email, I'm posting it here so the response can be googled later >8) )

It is possible that kdm is asking your X server to reset instead of completely restarting it. That would create the issue you're mentioning. My system is running XF86 4.3.0 with the radeon driver, and it can't reset properly. Assuming your kde is in the usual place, edit this file:
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xservers